And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

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    How can the smartest people be so dumb?

    Please, please, PLEASE… if you care about a healthy open internet, donate to Mozilla, Thunderbird, and/or the EFF, at the minimum, if you’re able to.

    I liked to subscribe to Youtube Premium to support my favourite channels but this kinda stuff turns me off.

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      Easy to confuse stupidity with malice. They’re chasing one thing and one thing only: the almighty dollar. Look at it through that lens and their actions make sense. For the rest of us though, that’s just stupid.

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        Not just the almighty dollar.

        Some people just pursue a perceived challenge with zero care for the terrible consequences of it.

        either way, they need to be stopped

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      Mozilla, Thunderbird, and/or the EFF,

      Do you know that donation to Mozilla don’t (and can’t legally) fund Firefox development, right? (opposite to what happens for Thunderbird, actually).

      But, hey, you can guarantee Mozilla’s CEO a better retirement:

      Thus, your money are better spent donating to Thunderbird or EFF or whatever other foundation that does something actually useful.

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      How can the smartest people be so dumb?

      Who are you talking about exactly? Because I doubt that everyone working at google knows everything thats going on, even while working on it.

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      I wonder how much of the money would go to the creators themselves rather than YouTube though. I’d rather use adblock and give money directly through patreon or something. Fuck Google.